Upstairs my 10 year old son is discovering the delights of iTunes. Don’t worry, he doesn’t have an internet connection up there, just an eMac I inherited from my place of work.
He’s loading up some of my CDs, which is why The Byrds (Bells of Rhymney) and The Kinks (Sunny Afternoon) are drifting down.
What’s more, he’s singing along – we used to share these tunes at his bedtime sing-song.
I feel as though an important taste in music has been passed to the new generation.

This is an unedited copy of a phone interview I did with Robyn for Record Collector magazine, to coincide with the release of Goodnight Oslo. Topics covered include
• his other recent (re)releases
• the difficulties of preserving recorded music
• inspiration for songwriting
• and the horrible comedown that inspired the title track of Goodnight Oslo.

I interviewed Robyn Hitchcock this morning, for a piece that will appear in Record Collector. Our conversation was too long to be reproduced there, so I’m going to put a transcript and a link to the soundfile on here.